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30 September 2003
Despite the comfort of the business class seats, I only had two 1h sleeps. We arrived in Los Angeles at 1345 for a 2h55 transit. Because the USA really provide for any international-to-international, we had to go through immigration. But special arrangements have been made for this to take place at the gate rather than […]
30 September 2003
Our evening departure at 2045 from Auckland wasn’t like our usual. We had Kim’s parents Pat and Fiona with us, along with friends Matt and Steph. All of us are hopefully bound for Los Angeles on standby, and subject to space on the aircraft continuing to London Heathrow. Before check-in, there was random manual baggage […]
27 May 2003
Despite the Business Class seat, I didn’t sleep on the flight home. We landed back in Auckland around 1010 and was picked up by Kim’s dad from the airport. What an adventure we have had in Sri Lanka and especially Iran, a rarely-visited gem that is so misunderstood. I can’t wait to see more of […]
19 May 2003
Leaving Iran We woke at 0445 as we have a morning flight from Esfahan to Tehran to connect on to Dubai. Kim had a bad night sleep and had been fighting a cold. We collected our passports at reception and set off for the airport at 0530, arriving there at 0600. It was another half […]
1 May 2003
Singapore’s Changi airport is so efficient that our bags were nearly disappearing having done one circuit of the conveyor when we got there. We were outside within minutes. We went from Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 to the Emirates Airlines office to collect our onward ticket to Colombo and Tehran. This was for our departure […]
1 May 2003
Kim’s Mum took us to the airport for our 1155 Air New Zealand flight to Singapore. Check-in was slow with only two counters open until a third opened two hours prior to departure. The flight was pleasant with the crew led by Tina, a former travel agent from Queenstown. I had met her working in […]
4 November 2002
Leaving Chiang Mai We had to wake at 0500 today for our 0700 flight from Chiang Mai to Bangkok. We had enough time for a light breakfast of fish congee, bacon and papaya. The crew for our flight was still eating as we left at 0605. At check-in we were given “CIQ” (Customs Immigration Quarantine) […]